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Bad Precedent: Andrew Jackson’s assault on habeas corpus

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Jackson was a natural populist, but he also had a fiercely autocratic streak. One enemy likened him to an “exasperated rhinoceros.”

Read this piece on Jackson’s attack on civil liberties from the New Yorker

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